A- Theoretically speaking (since I can’t think of any), any argument that would persuade an ideal philosophy student of perfect emptiness would have to be valid.
B- The ideal philosophy student of perfect emptiness is not something similiar to the ghost in the machine at all- though they may appear similiar, one is based on implicit human ideas of selfhood whilst the other is based on an ideal of how humans SHOULD behave.
C- If your argument can’t persuade an ideal philosophy student of perfect emptiness, how do you consider yourself superior to a religious believer who believes entirely on faith at all? Both of you are making assumptions on faith, after all. Any appeal to empirical evidence can’t work yet as that is effectively an object of faith.
D- Take a (reasonably common) hypothetical scenario- a human who is trying to choose between a selfish course of action that benefits them in the long run and a selfless course of action that benefits others at their expense in the long run. Your ethical system cannot provide any argument to persuade such a human.
A few criticisms.
A- Theoretically speaking (since I can’t think of any), any argument that would persuade an ideal philosophy student of perfect emptiness would have to be valid.
B- The ideal philosophy student of perfect emptiness is not something similiar to the ghost in the machine at all- though they may appear similiar, one is based on implicit human ideas of selfhood whilst the other is based on an ideal of how humans SHOULD behave.
C- If your argument can’t persuade an ideal philosophy student of perfect emptiness, how do you consider yourself superior to a religious believer who believes entirely on faith at all? Both of you are making assumptions on faith, after all. Any appeal to empirical evidence can’t work yet as that is effectively an object of faith.
D- Take a (reasonably common) hypothetical scenario- a human who is trying to choose between a selfish course of action that benefits them in the long run and a selfless course of action that benefits others at their expense in the long run. Your ethical system cannot provide any argument to persuade such a human.
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